The Person & The People
What A Drag
October 26 2014 (Land Ski Records)
5.5/10
Words: Alison Mack
Releasing their second full-length, this Minnesota band have been playing together for a good few years, all being friends since back In the schoolyard which will no doubt have helped their musical reading between each of the four, now in their early twenties.
This second work is the first which on which guitarists Nick Costa and Sam Sanford split songwriting duties between them, and which may account for the clear demarcation between the 12 tracks. Opener 'I Get Weird' is an energetically-paced 1.45 minutes of squally grunge punk guitars and closer 'Run', less frenetic but still down in grunge-esque territory. Slotted in between these, however, you then get a variety from the balladic anti-paean to the Big Apple, 'NYC FREAKOUT' to the bluesy folk feel of 'What You Do', punchy chords of lead single 'Vitamin C', and the rocked-up 'Year Long Drought' and 'Brooklyn'.
Ultimately, a very American-sounding album that perhaps lacks a certain cohesiveness in structure, but easy enough on the ears if your kind of thing.
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